RE: MI as the MI language of the as400.

I'm not quite sure of the point you are trying to make here, but if the
point is that Microsoft didn't have ILE type concepts until .NET, I would
have to disagree.

As early as Visual Basic 3.0 (the one that ran under MS-DOS, not the windows
VBasic) we could do a lot of the same things we can do in ILE.  Visual Basic
3.0 would allow you to create a library, very similar to an RPG ILE
Directory, with your functions and call them from your programs.  The
library was in a separate object, .lib if I remember correctly.  ILE reminds
me quite a bit of this Visual Basic 3.0 and onward type of library building,
why it was rather easy for me to take ILE concepts and run with them.

I am not stating that RPG ILE is better or worst than Visual Basic 3.0 type
libraries, just stating the fact.

Regards,

Jim Langston

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From: Hall, Philip [mailto:phall@spss.com]

Not until .NET, where Microsoft have taken similar concepts as ILE (which
were not knew for ILE either) for their latest and greatest offering.